Slavery
The Royal Navy in the front line against slavery
It is wilfully forgotten that the Royal Navy was central to ending the slave trade
BLM are right – Slavery is wrong
My manifesto to help Black Lives Matter beat slavery today
A perversion of Puritanism
The toppling of Colston’s statue in Bristol sends a terrible message to today’s would-be philanthropist
Dishonest Abe
He is revered as the man who freed US slaves. Yet he never intended to do so and it was he who forced a war for the Union
Get stuck into mudlarking
Searching for treasure on the Thames foreshore is like “a giant history lucky dip”
More sad than naughty
A BDSM book by a group keen to challenge gender norms is oddly conventional
Why can Hollywood never get the King Arthur story right?
Like natural disasters, adaptations of the Arthurian legend seem to arrive about once a decade and leave devastation in their wake
Our human right to be kept in the dark
Andrew Tettenborn says we should be able to hear, read and say what we want without the threat of undemocratic human rights law
Why is anti-semitism the last acceptable form of bigotry?
Just like Covid-19, this new, virulent strain of anti-Semitism will prove hard to dispel, and no vaccine will be available to act as a panacea
A local lockdown for local people
You can’t have a Whitehall farce if you close the Whitehall Theatre
Carlos and Me
Following Carlos Menem’s recent passing, David Smith remembers his relationship with the bold and cunning politician
How detached will Northern Ireland be from Brexit Britain?
Despite agreement in the Joint Committee, the disruption to trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland remains considerable
The history twisters
Nigel Jones warns that cinematic portrayals of historical events and figures could alter how we understand the past
Diversity season again
Chloé Zhao is the first Asian woman likely to be nominated in the Best Director category for Nomadland, says Christopher Silvester